Alex Katz Reflection 2, 2021 is a piece that plays with the contrast of light and shadow and their reflections on the water surface. Katz aims to immediately convey those expeditious visual impressions from which the audience derives an essential idea about the phenomena, which he has often referred to as a “flash” or “explosion” before an image settles into the viewer’s field of vision. Reflection 2 personifies his lifelong pursuit to capture the present in color and with bold flat colors that mirror each other, the bottom half with minor additions and changes that suggest the movement of water, changing the

perception and consciousness of the viewer on the relationship between art and nature. Thick lines of green cascade across the blue mirrored sky in the bottom portion of the work, the trees swaying in the wind. By mirroring his work in the lower part of the canvas, he used a formal device that strayed away from his traditional “environmental landscapes” to invent the genre. Under Katz’s realism – without the sentimental, introspective or superfluous – gives this moment of insight to an ever-changing sense of synchronicity that exists simultaneously in the image and in its subject.

Created in 2021, this archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm paper is hand-signed by Alex Katz (Brooklyn, 1927 - ) in pencil in the lower left and is inscribed “R.T.P.” (Ready to Print) in pencil in the lower right margin; aside from the numbered edition of 100.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

Alex Katz Reflection 2, 2021 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:

Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Alex Katz Reflection 2, 2021 is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.